Name your top 10 favorite albums

[XHendrix24]

In alphabetical order order :

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour/Sgt. Pepper's (I love me some psychedelic Beatles)
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (tough choice here)
The Clash - London Calling
David Bowie - 1. Outside
Elliott Smith - Either/Or; From A Basement On The Hill; XO
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About/The Moon and Antarctica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nada Surf - Let Go
The National - Alligator
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
New Order - Substance
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn/The Wall/Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde/Doolittle/Surfer Rosa
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions
Pulp - Different Class
Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Talking Heads - Fear of Music/Remain In Light
Third Eye Blind - s/t
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
U2 - Zooropa/The Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby
The Velvet Underground - & Nico/VU
The Who - Who's Next/Quadrophenia
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
XTC - Drums & Wires

Yeah, I hate to be the douchebag to post WAY more than 10 albums, but once I started I just couldn't stop myself.

 

[EdgeIsTooSexy]

The Clash- London Calling
Echo & the Bunnymen- Songs to Learn and Sing
Pearl Jam- Ten/VS/Yield
The Police- Synchronicity
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
Rolling Stones- Forty Licks
U2- Achtung Baby/ Unforgettable Fire/ Zooropa

 

[AtomicBono]

U2 - Pop

 

[ShipOfFools]

Just ten? Wow, this is going to be difficult...

I'll take a shot at it, though.

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. REM - Monster
4. Peter Gabriel - Security
5. Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
6. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
7. U2 - Zooropa
8. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
9. Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
10.David Bowie - Low

Strong contenders: Rush "Moving Pictures," The Smashing Pumpkins "Adore," Beck "Odelay."

There, whew!

 

[U2democrat]

I'm going to try and keep it to 1 album per artist.

Achtung Baby-U2
Invisible Touch-Genesis
Synchronicity-The Police
Black Holes and Revelations-Muse
Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie
Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac
The White Album-The Beatles
Freedom's Road-John Mellencamp
A Rush of Blood to the Head-Coldplay
Who's Next-The Who

 

[Zoots]

I'm amazed you have the courage, defiance, whatever, to put Hysteria on there (let alone that high) and release it to the public. I was a pretty big fan at the time (13th row on the Hysteria tour!), but I can't quite say it still does it for me. I will not deny, however, the still-effective pop charms of "Armageddon It".

Just finished listening to Hysteria myself. What a fun album! Every song is like a hit single.

 

[PookaMacP]

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3. U2 - Achtung Baby
4. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
5. Led Zeppelin - IV
6. The Strokes - Is This It
7. Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
8. The Band - The Band
9. Brian Eno - Another Green World
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

 

[annie_vox]

I haven't written here in ages!!! Anyway I hope to post often again and I'll start with this...
In no particular order:

Achtung Baby - U2
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Origin Of Symetry - Muse
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
First Impressions Of Earth - The Strokes
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Our Love To Admire - Interpol
OK Computer - Radiohead
Elephant - The White Stripes
13 - Blur

 

[Zoots]

New updated list

U2 - Achtung Baby
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Radiohead - Ok Computer
REM - Automatic For The People
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Led Zeppelin - IV
Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Guns n Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II

 

[No spoken words]

I love these threads, not for the opportunity to post my list, but for the opportunity to see everyone's lists....you're always going to see things you agree with, disagree with, etc...but the best is when someone lists something you're not familiar with, leading to a discovery that is new to you.....anyway, my list, in no order, with only one per band:

Joshua Tree - U2
OK Computer - Radiohead
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays
Revolver - The Beatles
Life's Rich Pageant - REM
Ferment - Catherine Wheel
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
Exit Stage Left - Rush
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Prince - Purple Rain
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

Well, that's 13, sorry.

And, this list represents the only thing I'm qualified to comment on, which are my 10 (13) favorites. I have no idea which are the 10 "best", and I suspect it's actually, or at least hopefully, an impossible question to answer to begin with.

 

[Jack In The Box]

Eureka - Jim O'Rourke

you rock

mine? I think I have two lists, one about everything and one just for post-rock

Everything:

*Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
*Radiohead - Kid A
*U2 - Achtung Baby
*The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
*Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
*Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
*The Arcade Fire - Funeral
*Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
*Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
*Iron & Wine - Woman King EP

+ Ryan Adams - Love is Hell/DJ Sammy - Heaven

Post-Rock:

*Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
*Eluvium - An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death
*A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward
*65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
*Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
*Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
*A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hand Resign
*Hammock - Rising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo
*Caspian - You Are the Conductor EP
*(and of course) Slint - Spiderland

+ The All Star Project - Something to Do with Death EP/Kwoon - Tales & Dreams